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I want all kinds of old coins, medals, bills, and ^stamps. I pay big cash premiums. WILL PAY $100 FOR DIME 1894 S. Mint; S50 for 1913 Liberty Head Nickel (not buffalo) and hundreds of other amazing prices for coins. Get in touch with me. Send 4c for Large Illustrated Coin Folder. It may mean much profit to you. Write today to NUMISMATIC COMPANY OF TEXAS Dept. 241 .... FORT WORTH, TEXAS (Largest Rare Coin Establishment in U S.J Arthur Lake is — can you believe it? — aren't we?'' But I like him that way. He's really as boyish and buoyant as he seems a really nice boy. And he has a disarming on the screen. He is still unspoiled, and modesty for so fresh and frolicsome a young when he and his sister Florence came to man. Radio Pictures had just signed him Manhattan they saw all the sights. "Even to a long'term contract and his trip to went down to Wall Street and looked it New York was in the nature of a celebra over," said Arthur with a grin. "Naive, tion. The best of luck, Arthur! Getting Into Character — Continued from page 31 Even when they begin to see things they sit fascinated, hypnotized apparently, their eyes getting larger and larger with terror like a bird that is being lured by a snake. I went about searching for drunkards so that I might watch what they did. That isn't as hard as you might think in this land of sobriety," she smiled. "Of course, as I had a scene to play I couldn't do just what the absinthe addicts did but I tried to give the impression that I was inert and staring even when my body had to move across the room. It took some practice but most of all I tried to get into the mental state of a person steeped in liquor. "Just now our house has gone Austrian. I'm playing a Viennese girl in 'Sarah and Son' and Ralph (Ralph Forbes) is playing a German boy. We often have to eat our dinner in costume when there are night scenes to take and we chatter in German to brush up our dialogue. I never could speak German so I have had to study hard for this picture." Corinne Griffith went to Europe before she did "Prisoners," partly for a vacation, but she traveled all through Hungary study ing the manners and customs of the people, taking photographs of houses and inns and farms she thought would be of value to the technical department. She talked with the women and sat in several cheap restaurants to watch the waitresses, because that is what she had to play in "Prisoners." George O'Brien never had to train specially for any part he ever played. He had to brush up on some of them, but as a boy and the son of San Francisco's Chief of Police he had opportunities to learn snatches of everything he has since been called upon to play on the screen. For instance, he spent several weeks at the Eureka logging mills, and that experience will come in handy in his next picture, as yet un-named. Years ago the San Francisco Examiner sent several boys out to see how riveting was done. George was one of them. He played football in college, and learned about ships from the Navy during the war. He was taught boxing by some of the crack boxers who visited San Francisco; and when he did "Is Zat So" it was merely a matter of brushing up. This was just after he played "Sunrise," a mystic, strange, atmospheric sort of part. George declared all he had to learn how to do there was to murder, and he drew the line at practicing up on that accomplishment! Art is art and all that, but an actor has to draw the line somewhere. Right after that, before he had shaken the mystic quality of "Sunrise" from his mind, George was scheduled to do "Is Zat So." "I went out on the road with Leo Houch for ten days," George told me, "and lived, ate and slept fight during the whole time. I worked myself right into the atmosphere of it and then came back to the studio." George told me that when Richard Dix played the carpenter in "The Ten Commandments," Cecil De Mille advised him to hang around the shop for a few days to get a line on the professional way to handle tools. So Richard got himself hired as a laborer. Twice he was balled out by the boss — once for neglecting to punch the time clock and once when he stooped over too far and the nails fell out of his overalls. A good carpenter never lets the nails fall out of his pockets, it seems. I heard that in one picture in which he was required to play a riveter Richard actually spent a day or two on the job so as to get the hang of it. And Gloria Swanson spent three or four days behind the ribbon counter at Gimbels in New York, riding to and from the store on the subway which she had never seen before, just to find out what it was like to buck the crowd after a long day on one's feet in a department store. But the palm goes to Bebe Daniels for being the best little research worker that I have talked to in Hollywood. Bebe's picture career is long and her parts many, as you all know. She has always had a passion for doing things right, "or as right as possible," she told me the day I visited her in her beach house. "Even when I was in comedies I studied up on everything, costumes and all. My grandfather left us a wonderful library — some twenty or thirty thousand books; it was supposed to be the most complete private collection in California until the Huntington library topped it. But we move about so much and none of our houses are large enough to accomodate grandfather's books, so they are all in storage. But I go to the public library here and if I can buy a book that will help me I do so, and gradually I have collected a motley assortment myself. Then if I need instruction on any particular thing I go to an authority and take instruction like any school-girl." Even when Bebe did comedies she was careful to be accurate. In "She's a Sheik" she had to use a scimitar and took lessons on the way to handle it. In "Senorita" she had to fence; in "The Campus Flirt" she had to sprint, and trained with Charlie Paddock. After two and a half month's training she was able to make the tape in thirteen and a quarter seconds. In "Take Me Home" she had to juggle, and that was the most amusing of all the things she had to learn. Bebe is a fine swimmer but for "Swim. Girl. Swim" she practiced the Australian crawl with Gertrude Ederle who also appeared in the picture. Gertrude was Bebe's house guest for several weeks and the two girls swam every day in the front yard, which is the ocean. She learned to drive a speed boat for "The Palm Beach Girl" and went to the Bowery in New York on amateur night to get atmosphere for another picture. She learned the professional way to manicure nails for another, in which she played a manicure girl. When she did "Sick-A-Bed" .with the late Wally Reid she had a nurse teach her how to take a pulse which is seldom done correctly by a non-professional; how to take blood pressure, use a stethoscope and take a temperature. For "Sinners in Heaven" with Richard Dix she had to play a native girl who knew nothing of civilization. Bebe was in New York at that time and went to the Metropolitan Museum to get the right dope